The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-22
PowpERLy ON JAY GOULD.
a Very Severe Attack by the Leader of
Labor upon the Railroad MaGnate.

A Very Severe Attack by the Leader o,
Labor upon the Railroad naGnate.
tFrom the Phlladelphia Times.)
The General Executive Board of the
hnlghts OF Labor yesterday sent out
from the Broad street headquarters the
last secret circular of the order prepared
by General Master Workman Powderly.
Lit Is in reference to the establishment OF
o governmental system of telegraphy and
directs every local assembly Of the great
organization to issue red letter calls, an.
point committees and wait upon eyery
Congressman in the separate districts
and persuade him to vote for the meas.
ure.
The secret circular is one of the most
plain ever issued by Mr.. Powderly, and
makes the most bitter attack upon jay
Gould and monopolists in general that
has ever been made by the order. II
trst rubs the members of the order fol
not attending to their duties and work,
ing III the interest OF governmental tele.
graph and tden tells Of the combined
ehorts OF the managers of telegraph lines
to suppress oil good and spread all dis,
c2uragln8 news relating to the knights
Of Labor
SCORING JAY GOULD.
Mir, Powderly tells Of the power of the
Western Union and how it stands with.
out rival; how the Western Union hos
ettectually and easily killed off all com.
petltors, and cites, as an instance. the
mere ing of the Baltimore and Ohio.
jay Gould rules absolutely the desti,
MES OF tho American people," saws Mr..
Powderly, "and he is the practical own.
er OF that part of the United States
which he wishes to take"
In speaking of the ''capitalistic press'
be says the order cannot ask the press oi
this country to be independent as LONG
as 1t allows monopoly to control both
press and people. The circular says:
"Ihe nows comes to them ready made
on wires over which the people, the
editors OF labor papers and the capital
1stlc press have no control. We ask of
editors Of papers to speak out against
monopoly. If they comply with our
request they are boycotted, first by the
man (D who own the wires, whan the
telegraphic news is shut off from their
columns; second, by the very people
who have asked of them to wage war on
monopoly and because they do not pub
lish the news"
The circular tells how the government
has reduced postal charges to mini,
mum, and how when mistakes are made
III transmission or delivery the govern
ment is always anxious to rectify such
error. AS comparison it says com
plant against the Western Union Telo.
graph Company is entirely useless; that
Is, unless the complainant has ten or
twenty millions of dollars to back him
up.
1T IS TIME TO WORK."
Ihc circular says that Jay Gould has
60 % just as far as he ought to go in his
career of rapacity. The system he rep.
resents can be displaced if the people
awake from their slumbers. The ac-
counts of the next Presidential election
may be flashed over wires owned and con
trolled by the people, if they will act at
once. In reference to asking each and
every Senator or Congressman to vote
Tor governmental telegraphy Mr. Pow
derly closes the circular with:
when you have secured all the names
you can get send the petitions to the
General Secretary, but do not mail them
until the "a day Of January, 1888. On
that day from every town and hamlet in
the Cnlted States where we have an
assembly want to have q petition. I
shall have the names counted and shall
take them to Washington to have them
presented to Congress. Fill them ont
carefully. Have every man or woman
sign his or own name. Get the best
%rlter III the assembly to fill out the
heading to each petition, giving the
name of State, number of Congressional
d strict and the name of your Congress-
man. BE sure to have these matters
carefully attended to. am in earnest,
and want TO take with me q petition so
large that it will demonstrate beyond the
shndow OF doubt that you arc il. earn.
est. 1t is time to work, and you must
do tic work. Throw aside your per
sonal feelings, your animosities your
dI1i"fen2e% and jealousies for tho time
aud '"',"k for this measure as you never
work, d b"fore. The paper sent YOU will
not contain names enough; add more
until yon secure every signature in your
'>cnliiy'